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Surgical Management of the Renal Transplant Recipient

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The modern era of renal transplantation began in the 1950s with the first successful transplant of a kidney between identical twin brothers. Since then, kidney transplantation has become a common procedure performed worldwide with a low incidence of technical complications. The number of kidney transplants in the United States has increased steadily over the past decades, and in 2004 the number of deceased kidney donor transplants in the United States exceeded 10,000 for the first time. Despite these encouraging facts, both the number of patients on the wait list and the wait time for a deceased donor kidney have continued to increase. According to the United Network for Organ Sharing (UNOS) data, there are more than 72,000 patients on the decease donor kidney transplant waiting list in the United States. This chapter will discuss the surgical follow up and complications that may occur following renal transplantation.

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  1. Division of Transplant Surgery, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, MA, USA

    Sayeed K. Malek MD & Stefan G. Tullius MD, PhD

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  1. Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Francis Street 75, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Anil Chandraker

  2. Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Francis Street 75, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Mohamed H. Sayegh

  3. Harvard Medical School, Renal Division, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Francis Street 75, Boston, 02115, Massachusetts, USA

    Ajay K. Singh

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Malek, S.K., Tullius, S.G. (2012). Surgical Management of the Renal Transplant Recipient. In: Chandraker, A., Sayegh, M., Singh, A. (eds) Core Concepts in Renal Transplantation. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0008-0_5

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